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awatelet
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Mar 16, 2021
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Can you turn off querying hive in Excel Power Query anytime you make a change?

We have a hive schema set up with a number of tables, some of which have over a million records. We are trying to access the tables within Excel and are using the Presto Driver by going to Get Data -...
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    SergeiBaklan
    Mar 18, 2021

    awatelet 

    If you query the server for few millions of records and on next step filtered them down to few hundreds, Power Query in background combine these steps and returns from the server only few hundreds. That's query folding. If it doesn't work or if you break it with another step, filtering will be done on the client site and that could take years to perform.

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